Comments on: Learning and Teaching http://asimpleyarn.net/2007/01/18/learning-and-teaching/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:59:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: tangelled angel http://asimpleyarn.net/2007/01/18/learning-and-teaching/#comment-427 tangelled angel Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:36:00 +0000 http://asimpleyarn.net/?p=200#comment-427 Yes thats the way I was taught how to hold my needles in school also, and still continue to do so. If you look closely at the photo you may be able to see the yarn wrapped around her little finger to give it a bit of stability, the yarn doesn't go all over the place then and you don't have to search for it everytime you go to knit a stitch. The right hand rarely leaves the right hand needle, the forefinger does most of the work. Yes thats the way I was taught how to hold my needles in school also, and still continue to do so. If you look closely at the photo you may be able to see the yarn wrapped around her little finger to give it a bit of stability, the yarn doesn’t go all over the place then and you don’t have to search for it everytime you go to knit a stitch. The right hand rarely leaves the right hand needle, the forefinger does most of the work.

]]> By: DaviMack http://asimpleyarn.net/2007/01/18/learning-and-teaching/#comment-428 DaviMack Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:05:00 +0000 http://asimpleyarn.net/?p=200#comment-428 It <i>is</i> an interesting way to hold the needles. Perhaps it works out better that way if you're holding the yarn in the right hand? It could facilitate the use of the index finger to "throw" the yarn, I suppose, and you'd probably not have the usual wasted motion which is so common when you carry the yarn in the right hand.<br /><br />ADD? No - perhaps not that. Myself, I finally finished up an immense (for me) project, and am very much happier for having it done with. Not that I'm not proud of it, but to be able to knit small things is so much more rewarding, 'cause you get to give them away and get all the appreciative comments more frequently.<br /><br />Perhaps not ADD - or, at least, a different meaning of the word "attention" ... as in, I miss receiving attention if I'm stuck with a large work, so I do small pieces so that I get compliments more frequently. ;) It is an interesting way to hold the needles. Perhaps it works out better that way if you’re holding the yarn in the right hand? It could facilitate the use of the index finger to “throw” the yarn, I suppose, and you’d probably not have the usual wasted motion which is so common when you carry the yarn in the right hand.

ADD? No - perhaps not that. Myself, I finally finished up an immense (for me) project, and am very much happier for having it done with. Not that I’m not proud of it, but to be able to knit small things is so much more rewarding, ’cause you get to give them away and get all the appreciative comments more frequently.

Perhaps not ADD - or, at least, a different meaning of the word “attention” … as in, I miss receiving attention if I’m stuck with a large work, so I do small pieces so that I get compliments more frequently. ;)

]]> By: Leigh http://asimpleyarn.net/2007/01/18/learning-and-teaching/#comment-429 Leigh Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:21:00 +0000 http://asimpleyarn.net/?p=200#comment-429 Interesting the way Claire is holding her needles. Is this the usual way in Ireland? It sounds as though they really just needed a little encouragement. Interesting the way Claire is holding her needles. Is this the usual way in Ireland? It sounds as though they really just needed a little encouragement.

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